Part 6

The buildings stand, to mark by their varying architecture the succession of the changeful centuries through which the University has passed. In the Libraries are the monuments of the successive generations of learning. But the tide of youthful life that from age to age has flowed through college, quadrangle, hall, and chamber, through University examination-rooms and Convocation Houses, has left no memorials of itself except the entries in the University and College books; dates of matriculation, which tell of the bashful boy standing before the august Vice-Chancellor at entrance; dates of degrees, which tell of the youth putting forth, from his last haven of tutelage, on the waves of the wide world. Hither they thronged, century after century, in the costume and with the equipments of their times, from mediæval abbey, grange, and hall, from Tudor manor-house and homestead, from mansion, rectory, and commercial city of a later day, bearing with them the hopes and affections of numberless homes. Year after year they departed, lingering for a moment at the gate to say farewell to College friends, the bond with whom they vowed to preserve, but whom they were never to see again, then stepped forth into the chances and perils of life, while the shadow on the College dial moved on its unceasing round. If they had only left their names in the rooms which they had occupied, there would be more of history than we have in those dry entries in the books. But, at all events, let not fancy frame a history of student life at Oxford out of "Verdant Green." There are realities corresponding to "Verdant Green," and the moral is, that many youths come to the University who had better stay away, since none get any good and few fail to get some harm, saving those who have an aptitude for study. But the dissipation, the noisy suppers, the tandem-driving, the fox-hunting, the running away from Proctors, or, what is almost as bad, the childish devotion to games and sports as if they were the end of existence, though they are too common a part of undergraduate life in the University of the rich, are far from being the whole of it. Less than ever are they the whole of it since University reform and a more liberal curriculum have increased, as certainly they have, industry and frugality at the same time. Of the two or three thousand lamps which to-night will gleam from those windows, few will light the supper-table or the gambling-table; most will light the book. Youthful effort, ambition, aspiration, hope, College character and friendship have no artist to paint them,--at least as yet they have had none. But whatever of poetry belongs to them is present in full measure here.

INDEX.

Addison, Joseph, 136.

Aldrich, Henry, 128.

Alfred (King), 24, 51.

All Souls' College, 67 _et sq._

Amusements, mediæval, 43.

Antiquity, apparent, of the buildings, 3.

Architectural revival at Oxford, 147, 148.

Aristotle, 31.

Ashmolean Museum, 24.

Augustinians, 35.

_Aulæ_, 39.

Bacon, Roger, 32, 33, 37.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 91.

Balliol College, 50; intellectual revival in, 141.

Baring, T. C., 138.

Benedictines, 35.

Bentham, Jeremy, 137.

Bentley, Richard, 129.

Black Prince, the, 100.

Bocardo, 88.

Bodleian Library, 19, 20, 21, 97.

Bodley, Sir Thomas, 20, 93.

Bologna, University of, 29.

Botanic Garden, 97.

Boyle, Charles, 119.

Bradwardine, Thomas, 31.

Brasenose College, 67 _et sq._, 74, 75.

Broadwalk, the, 140.

Brome, Adam de, 52.

Buildings, dates of, 3 _et sq._

Butler, Bishop, 137.

Cardinal College, 83.

Carmellites, 35.

Celibacy enjoined on Heads of Colleges, 96; effects of its withdrawal, 132, 133.

Chamberdekyns, 39, 99.

Charles I. at Oxford, 113, 114.

Charles II. at Oxford, 123.

Chicheley, Archbishop, 70, 71.

Christ Church Cathedral, 35.

Christ Church College, 80 _et sq._; intellectual revival in, 128, 129, 140, 141.

Cistercians, 35.

Civil War, Oxford in the time of the, 112 _et sq._

Clarendon, Earl of, 18, 107.

Clarendon Building, 18, 19.

Clarendon Press, 19.

Class Lists, 142.

Clayton, Thos., wife of, 132.

Clerical profession, dominance of, 104.

Colet, John, 76.

College life, 9 _et sq._

Colleges, administration and government of, 9 _et sq._; growing importance of, 99 _et sq._; the present intellectual revival in the, 152 _et sq._

Commemoration, 15.

Common Room life, 157.

Commons, 49.

Commonwealth, Oxford in the time of the, 114 _et sq._

Conant, John, 116.

Congregation, 8.

Convocation, 8.

Convocation House, 13, 14, 97.

Corpus Christi College, 75.

Cranmer, Archbishop, 88, 89.

Cromwell, Oliver, Chancellor of Oxford, 118.

Degrees, manner of conferring, 13.

Disputation, stress laid upon, 30.

Divinity School, 14.

Dominicans, 36.

Duns Scotus, 31.

Durham College, 91.

Egglesfield, Robert, 52.

Eldon, Lord, 135, 137.

Elizabeth (Queen), 98.

Elmsley, Peter, 136.

Erasmus, D., 76.

"Essays and Reviews," authors of, 24.

Eton, 59.

Eveleigh, John, 141.

Evelyn, John, 116, 119.

Examinations, 21, 22.

Examination system, the, 153, 154.

Examination-rooms. _See_ Schools.

Exeter College, 50, 53 _et sq._

Faculties, 28.

Falkland, Viscount, 107.

Fawkes's (Guy) lantern, 21.

Fell, John, 124.

Fellows, 46.

Fellowships, 102.

Fleming, Bishop, 68.

Founders, portraits of, 21.

Foxe, Bishop, 77.

Franciscans, 36.

Frydeswide, St., 87.

Gibbon, Edward, 137.

Gladstone, W. E., 22.

Graduation. _See_ Degrees.

Great Hall of the University, the, 51.

Great Tew, 107.

Grocyn, William, 76.

Grosseteste, Robert, 38, 44.

Halls, 39, 98, 99.

Hart Hall, 137.

Hebdomadal Council, 106.

Hertford College, 138.

High Church Traditions at Oxford, 144 _et sq._

Hooker, Richard, 108.

Houses, monastic, 50.

Humanists, the, 77.

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 20, 76.

Inception, 31.

Jacobitism at Oxford, 127, 128.

James I., 22, 98.

James II., statue of, 125.

Jesus College, 94.

Jews at Oxford in the Middle Ages, 42.

Johnson, Samuel, at Oxford, 138.

Keble, John, 147.

Keble College, 147.

Laud, Archbishop, 109 _et sq._

Leicester, Earl of, 108.

Lime Walk at Trinity College, the, 140.

Linacre, Thomas, 76.

Lincoln College, 67 _et sq._

Livery, 49.

Locke, John, 124.

Lowth, Robert, 136.

Magdalen College, 67 _et sq._, 72 _et sq._, 130.

Magdalen College Case, 126.

Manchester College, 155.

Manning, H. E., 24.

Mansfield College, 155.

Marisco, Adam de, 44.

Martyr, Catherine, 87.

Maynard, Joseph, 121.

Mendicant Orders, 36.

Merton, Walter de, 44, 45.

Merton College, 45 _et sq._

Mob Quad, 45.

Monastic Orders, 35.

Monastic Oxford, 35.

Monasteries, 35, 37, 50, 53.

Montfort, Simon de, 37, 38.

More, Sir Thomas, 76.

Museum, the Ashmolean. _See_ Ashmolean.

Museum, the University, 153, 154.

Neo-Catholicism. _See_ Tractarianism.

Neville, George, 101.

Newman, J. H., 14, 24, 145, 148.

New College, 55 _et sq._

Newton, Isaac, 105.

Newton, Richard, 137.

Non-conformists excluded, 123.

Ockham, 31.

Oldham, Hugh, 78.

Oriel College, 50, 52.

Osney Abbey, 35.

Owen, John, 116.

Oxford (the name), derivation of, 2.

Oxford Architectural Society, 147.

Oxford (the city), situation of, 1; environs of, 1, 2; of the 13th century, 27 _et sq._

Oxford (the University), administration and government of, 7 _et sq._, 106 _et sq._; origin and growth of, 25 _et sq._; political proclivities of, 28, 37, 105; in the 18th century, 130 _et sq._; in the 19th century, 140 _et sq._; intellectual revival of, in the present day, 152.

Oxford Movement, the. _See_ Tractarianism.

Oxford University Commissions (1850 and 1876), 149, 151.

Papacy, the, and the Universities, 34, 37.

Paris, University of, 27, 34.

Pattison, Mark, 70.

Pembroke College, 97.

Peel, Robert, 142.

Petre, Sir William, 93.

Philippa, Queen, 52.

Philosophy, Scholastic, early addiction to, 30.

Pope, Cardinal, 92.

Pope, Sir Thomas, 91.

Portraits of Founders, 21.

Press, the University (_see also_ Clarendon Press), 19.

Proctors, 10, 13, 14.

Professors, 10.

Protectorate, the. _See_ Commonwealth.

Puritanism and Oxford, 115 _et sq._

Pusey, E. B., 24, 145.

Queen's College, 50, 52.

Radcliffe, Dr. John, 23.

Radcliffe Library, 23.

Reformation, influence of, on Oxford, 108, 110.

Religious tests, 90.

Renaissance, the Mediæval, 23.

Restoration, the, and Oxford, 120 _et sq._

Revolution, the (1688), and Oxford, 125, 127.

Richard III. at Oxford, 73, 74.

Rotheram, Bishop, 69.

Routh, Martin, 136.

Royal Commissions. _See_ Oxford University Commissions.

Royal Society, The, 119 _et sq._

St. Frydeswide's Church, 35.

St. John's College, 92.

St. Mary of Winton, College of, 56.

St. Mary's Church, 15, 24.

St. Michael's Church, 25.

Salerno, University of, 27.

Scholars, 46 _et sq._

Schools, the, 21.

Schools, the new examination, 153.

Sermons, University, 24.

Sheldon, Archbishop, 14.

Sheldonian Theatre, 14, 15, 124, 125.

Smith, Adam, 137.

_Socii_, 46.

Sports, 162.

Statutes, fettering influence of, 101, 102; disregarded, 130.

Stowell, Lord, 137.

Student life, mediæval, 39 _et sq._, 63 _et sq._

Students, mediæval, 39, 41 _et sq._; their affrays with the townspeople, 41, 42; their amusements, 43.

Suburbs of Oxford, 156 _et sq._

Teachers, the first, at Oxford, 28.

Tests. _See_ Religious tests.

Theology, 32.

Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, 73.

Tom Tower, 81.

Tractarianism, 145 _et sq._

Trinity College, 91.

"Trojans, The," 77.

Turner's picture of Oxford, 2.

Tutors, 9.

Undergraduate life, modern, 162, 163.

Universities, rise of, in Europe, 27.

University College, 51.

University Gallery, 21.

"Verdant Green," 162.

Vice-Chancellorship, the, 106.

Vives, Juan Luis, 81.

Wadham, Dorothy, 96.

Wadham, Sir Nicholas, 95.

Wadham College, 94.

Walker, Obadiah, 126.

Ward, Seth, 116.

Ward, W. G., 145.

Warton, Thomas, 136.

Waynflete, Bishop, 72, 73.

Wellington, Duke of, his inauguration as Chancellor, 17.

Wesley, John, 70.

White, Sir Thomas, 92, 93.

Wilkins, John, 116, 119, 122.

William of Durham, 50.

William of Wykeham, 55 _et sq._

Winchester School, 58.

Windebank, Thos., 114.

Wolsey, Cardinal, 59, 81, 82 _et sq._

Wood, Anthony (_quoted_), 120, 121.

Worcester College, 35.

Wren, Christopher, 3, 82.

Wycliffe, John, 54.

Wykeham. _See_ William of Wykeham.

End of Project Gutenberg's Oxford and Her Colleges, by Goldwin Smith